Patterns & Pressure

Insights on financial pressure and psychosocial safety at work — for the people who can see it in the data and can't yet name it.

Why the seminar did not work

by: Tara Saxon | Keynote Speaker - Pressure, Patterns & PerformancePublished on: 05/09/2026

The session went well, the feedback was good, and nothing changed. That is not a delivery problem. It is a mismatch between the level of the remedy and the level of the driver.

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Why the seminar did not work

Half your workforce cannot afford the support you are paying for

by: Tara Saxon | Keynote Speaker - Pressure, Patterns & PerformancePublished on: 21/08/2026

Cost is the most cited barrier to mental health support by a wide margin, and financial education is the biggest gap between what employees value and what they get. The wellbeing budget defeated by the thing it does not name.

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Half your workforce cannot afford the support you are paying for